I’m continuing to stitch on the Urban Renewal quilt top. This week, I’ve added the filler pieces to even out the edges and included a narrow black border. This required lots more hand piecing which I have been thoroughly enjoying.
I then laid out the top to decide if
I would use a pieced border. After auditioning several including braids, bricks, piano keys and plain fabric, I decided to go with flying geese.
There was already a box of half-square triangles saved from other projects so it was easy work to machine stitch them together for the geese. I’m not thrilled with the look but it’s the best decision I can make today. I do like how the border has increased the size of the top.
This evening I’m trying to decide if I want to hand stitch them to the top or zip them through the sewing machine. I’m in the mood to watch movies and hand stitch so that’s what I will probably do. With our cooler weather, I don’t mind having it in my lap. I’ve begun thinking about how I want to hand quilt it.
Jacob was here for the weekend. We just love that he drives down and visits often. This time, I made lots of handmade egg noodles to go with the mushroom chicken he loves. I also baked sugar free banana bread we always enjoy. He was able to take home some homemade chicken broth, 2 big bags of dried homemade noodles and 1/2 loaf of banana bread for enjoying later.
He left just an hour ago and I already miss him.
Shirl
By Lisa Mon Oct 20th 2014 at 11:26 pm
Shirley,
I love the flying geese border along with the black!!! I have several more “Y” units made now. I don’t even want to count them at this time…don’t want to get discouraged. LOL! Thank you for sharing your blog with me. I am making them faster now that I am putting them together in boomerang style instead of how I was doing it.
By shirlsu Tue Oct 21st 2014 at 8:05 pm
Lisa,
So glad you’re still chugging along. Is yours also scrappy?
The boomerang style made it feel like a faster process and offered a little change-up in stitching the units. I’d spend an evening or two stitching boomerangs, then another evening making ‘Ys’.
Tonight, I’ll hand stitch the last border in place and as soon as I finish, I’ll sandwich and hand baste it. I’m looking forward to quilting. I’ve decided to use black YLI quilting thread and the backing is light gray with black marbling. I hope it will be handsome.